We have had a very exciting week! For our UOI this week we have been making different things for our house corner in the classroom. We have a kitchen for the students to play with and food, but we have no other items and decided to make them. We made a refrigerator, a computer, a car, and a washing machine. Since we have been talking about family roles, we thought it was important to have these items as well so the students could get some experience playing with them.
インターナショナルスクールオブ長野松本キャンパスの4歳児Shooting Starクラスでは、今週とっても楽しいUOIのレッスンをしました。今週は家族にそれぞれの役割を聞き、お父さんやお母さんがどんな仕事をするのか考えることができました。
そして来週する予定のロールプレーで使う家具や物（冷蔵庫、コンピューター、車、洗濯機）を作りました！
グループでお友達と協力してとっても素敵な家具が作れましたよ。それらを使ってロールプレーしたり遊んだりするのが楽しみですね。
Monday we had our swimming class in Matsumoto city. We split the class so half go one week and the other half go the next week. The children are having a great time in class and are learning new things since they are in the 4 – 5 year olds class.
月曜日は松本市内のスイミングプールでスイミングレッスンもしました。週のレッスンスケジュールにも慣れてきた子どもたち。それぞれの活動を思いっきり楽しんでいます。
Wednesday we had our gym class and Thursday we went to the park. We still took the bus but starting next week we will be walking again. Once we got to the park we walked around and did some exercises since we didn’t walk there. We all had a fun time!
水曜日はジムレッスンで、鍋なべそっこぬけをして体を動かしました。二人一組から始まって最後にはクラス全員でできました！子どもたちはお友達と手をしっかりと繋いでできましたね。
For math we started learning about weight. The students have been having a great time figuring out which items are heavier or lighter than others. We also demonstrated this activity for the parents during open school day on Friday.
今まで算数のレッスンでは高さTall/Shortを比べる活動をしていましたが、今週から重さHeavy/Lightを学んでいます。クラス内のさまざまな物を選び、それらの重さを比べて何が一番重たいか、軽いかをオリジナルのはかりを使って確認しました。ちょっとした実験をしている気分でとっても楽しかったです！
Our phonics lesson was a blast this week! We had so much fun learning about syllables. The students were clapping and stomping their names and then we started using other words. After introducing syllables we were able to use some instruments and make a syllable parade. It was so much fun!
金曜日のフォニックスではシラブル（音節）を手や足をたたいて学んできましたが、この日は楽器を使って音節ごとに音をだしました。音とリズムで楽しくシラブルを理解することができましたね。
Thank you to all the parents that were able to come to the open school day Friday. The students were so excited and happy to have you all there. We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
スクールオープンデーにお越しいただいた保護者の皆様、ありがとうございました！
子どもたちはとっても嬉しそうにしていました＾＾
よい週末をお過ごしください！
